THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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VOL. 2. N 0.17
East Yancey FFA Team Wins Meet
The East Yancey Chapter of the Future Farmers of Ameri
ca won the 19th Annual North Carolina FFA Land Judging
Meet this past weekend at Franklin, N.C. high school. The
Yancey County team received a plaque and check for $750
toward their travel expenses to Oklahoma City, Okla. .where
it will represent the state at the International Land Judging
Meet next month. Shown from left: team advisorH. Dollar,
Larry McMahan, CP & L ag engineer Joe Gregory, Rex Geouge,
Thin) Annual Bluegrass Festival To Feature
'First Family Os Country Gospel Music,’ May 12
The Lewis Family of Lincoln -
ton, Georgia will be one of the
featured attractions at the third
annual BluegTass Show Saturday,
May 12 at 2:00 and 8:00 p. m.
at Mountain Wilderness Park in
Pensacola. Bluegrass artist
Mac Wiseman will also appear.
The Lewis family is aptly
recognizecTasr "The First Fami
ly of Country Gospel Music."
(Onstage, th ls group of enter -
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The Lewis Family Os Lincolnton, Georgia Entertain With Country Gospel Music
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tainers perform with the great
est variety of entertainment
ever presented by a gospel
singing group. They belt out a
fast-moving show that's bound
to please both young and old.
In the two and one-half horn
stage show they present just
about every type of gospel song
along with, the old hymns as
well as the old southern spiri -
tuals. The natural bom crea
Vic Tart, chief consultant for N.C. Vocational Education;
Tony Eubanks, Ronnie Wilson, and Charles Dyson who is CP&L
Asheville district manager. The annual competition is spon
sored by Carolina Power & light Company and the N.C.Bank
ers Association in cooperation with the FFA and various gov
ernmental agencies to help future fanners develop their skills
in soil classification and management.
tive artistry of the Lewis Fami
ly have made them great fa
vorites wherever they have
appeared.
All proceeds from theßlue
grass Festival, May 11 and 12,
will go for a Volunteer Fire
Department for the Pensacola
Community. The Festivalwill
include a Bluegrass Band Con
test to be held Friday n i ght,
May 11. All interested persons
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26,1971
should contact Mrs. Ron Eubanks
at 682-2700 no later than the
9th of May.
Friday, May 11, admission
will be $1,50 for advance tic
kets and $2.00 at the gate. On
Saturday, May 12, advance
tickets for the 2:00 p. m. show
will be $2,50 and $3.00 at the
gate. Tickets for the 8:00 p.m.
show will be $3. 00 in advance
and $3. 50 at the gate.
Dairy Poster
Contest Set
The North Carolina Dairy
Poster Contest provides an op
portunity for boys and girls to
leam more about milk and
milk products and to encourage
others to take advantage of the
benefits related to their con -
sumption. Any boy or girl in
North Carolina under age 19
may participate by making a
poster which tells the story of
the value of milk and/or milk
products and displaying it at
least once in a public place
(school, farm store, grocery
store, etc). Extra credit will
be given for newspaper articles •
or programs given to go along
with the poster.
Posters should be done on
poster board or a similar mat
erial, and should be 22" x 28"
in size. Each contestant may
make and display as many pos
ters as he wishes, but must do
his own work. Copyrighted
materials such as cartoon char
acters may not be used. Posters
must be completed by May 31
and displayed during June.
They should be turned in to
the Yancey County Extension
Office by July 2 for judging
with the following informa -
tion on the upper right comer
of the back;
1. Your name, address and
county.
2. Your age as of January
1, 1973.
3. Where your poster was
and far how long.
4. If you made any talks
or wrote any articles concern
ing your poster include this in
formation.
Judging will be done on
three levels:
Division I—Under 12 years;
Division ll—l 2to 14 years; Di
vision Hl—Over 14 years.
For more information, con
tact the Extension Office.
Finance Co.
Merger Plan
The president of the North
western Finance Company an
nounced today that negotiations
are underway between the North
western Finance Company and
the Northwestern Financial Cor
poration looking toward the
merger of the Northwestern Fi
nance Company into the North
western Financial Corporation.
The Board of Directors of the
Northwestern Finance Company
in a special meeting authorized
the officers of the Northwestern
Finance Company to proceed
with the negotiations with the
Board of Directors of the North
western Financial Corporation
and to finalize plans for the ex
change of stock in the Northwes
tern Finance Company for stock
in the Northwestern Financial
Corporation. The plan when
completed will be submitted to
the Board of Directors of each
corporation and if approved by
the Boards of Directors, will
then be submitted to the stock
holders for approval and will be
subject to the appro ai of t'll
governmental and supervisory
agents.
New Central High School
WHERE WILL THE MONEY COME FROM?
1. 1963 State Bond Issue $338, 310.00
2. Appalachian Regional Commission Funds 480,000.00
(This "gift" from Washington may be lost if not used this year)
3. Revenue Sharing Funds (Specific amount to be determined)
S j *4. local Bond Issue (To be voted on May 22, 1973). „SL, 500,L ' /v "'
(The sum mistakenly reported in last week's paper as $500,000)
*These bonds are to be paid off with income from the one cent sales tax which has been
p in effect since May, 1971 and has already paid to the county $173,577. 33 during the
first six quartets. The County Commissioners have pledged to use all revenue from this
H source for educational purposes. The statement in the legal notice in the Yancey Jour
ll nal which stated that taxes would be levied and collected annually for this purpose was
H a legal requirement. The taxes are already being collected monthly for this purpose
j| through the one cent sales tax. The County Commissioners have stated publically that
t here is NO need nor plan to increase taxes for this purpose!
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Three-Vehicle Accident Takes Life
OF East Yancey High School Student
A 16-year-old East Yancey
High School student was killed
and another youth injured near
Burnsville late Tuesday night,
April 19th, in a three-vehicle
accident onU.S. Highway 19,
according to the State Highway
Patrol.
Trooper R. A. Henshaw
identified the dead youth as
Jimmy Dean Fox, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Fox of Route
2, Burnsville, who was opera -
ting one of the vehicles.
Henshaw said the crash oc
curred at 11:45 p. m. when the
Fox vehicle, traveling north at
an apparent high rate of speed,
attempted to pass another vs-
Sales And Use
Tax Report
Local 1% Sales and Use Tax
collections for Yancey County
during the month of March,
1973 were reported by G. A.
Jones, Jr., Commissioner,
State Department of R eve nuq
in the statement issued monthly
from Raleigh.
Yancey County collections
amounted to $10,054.49 dur
ing March, comparing favorab
ly to just over $13,000.00 re
ported from Mitchell County,
and surpassing the $7,953.73
collected by Madison County.
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Paper Boy For Biimsvillo
Paper boys are an integral part of life in the "big city," but Burnsville has never had a
paper boy to hawk its own newspaper, the Yancey Journal. The situation has been reme
died, however, since "Sweet Pete" who operates a snack shop on the town square has
taken the Job for himself and a more cheerful paper boy could not be found!
hide and crashed into the rear
of a tractor-trailer rig parked
on the left hand shoulder.
The Fox vehicle overturned,
pinning the driver and David
Laws, 14, of Burnsville in the
car. The vehicle Fox had pass
ed was operated by Richard
Jerome Bums, 16, of Burnsville,
Henshaw said.
Laws was listed in fair con
dition Tuesday at Asheville's
Memorial Mission Hospital,
where he had been transferred
Bums and two other passengers
escaped injury in the wreckage.
Henshaw said the tractor
trailer rig was unoccupied and
had been moved several feet
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by the force of the impact from
Fox's car.
Surviving in addition to the
parents are two sisters, Mrs.
Vicki Hensley and Mrs. linda
Hensley, both of Burnsville;
three brothers, Gary Lee, Jerry
and Rickey Fox, also of Burns
ville; and the maternal grand
* parents, Mrs. Lonnie Williams
of Boone and Sammy Williams
of Burnsville.
Funeral services were held
at 3:00 p. m. Friday in the
chapel of Holcombe Brothers
Funeral Home. Rev. Charlie
Miller and Rev. James Fergus
on officiated and burial was in
the Fox Cemetery.
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Hnnt Is Held
On Thursday afternoon, the
19th of April, the Acteens and
GA's of the First Baptist Chirch
entertained the Child Develop
ment Center with an Easter
Egg hunt at the home of John
ny McLain. Twenty one child
ren enjoyed the afternoon
hunting eggs. Refreshments
were prepared and served by
the girls. As the children left,
the girls gave each child an
egg to take with them.